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The Korea-US FTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
While the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement continues to languish, US President Barack Obama is energetically pursuing a new US trade agreement with Asia -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Biodiversity in the FTAs with the USA and Europe: the crisis of the Andean integration process
While the Andean countries initially called for a balance to be struck between IPRs and the Andean countries’ interests – in particular education, culture, research, access to medicines, public health, food security, environmental protection, access to information, and technology transfer – Europe has insisted on measures to further entrench the intellectual property protection aspects of regional integration.
Nepal invites US official to sign TIFA
Nepal has invited Deputy US Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis for signing Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA), which the two countries negotiated out last month.
Facts are stubborn things when it comes to trade
We're all entitled to our own opinion about NAFTA-style trade pacts, but we're not entitled to our own facts. The most peculiar claim is that the US has trade surpluses with its FTA partners, when in fact the data show we have a deficit.
US inches a BIT closer to China
The US-China Congressional Committee has released a study it commissioned in June 2009 for the purposes of investigating why the United States and China have not yet executed a bilateral investment treaty (BIT).
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Should Malaysia Join?
In March, the United States Ambassador to Malaysia James Keith indicated that Malaysia should participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement; a new regionalisation project that intends to expand the existing Pacific-4 Free Trade Agreement (P4 FTA).
Pakistan, US to start BIT talks this month
Pakistan and the United States are scheduled to restart negotiations on Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) in the third week of May
Swaziland: Not much benefit in preferential trade agreement
A decade after the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), a preferential US trade agreement, became law on 18 May 2000, there are questions over the benefits, if any, derived from the initiative.
Hoyer says trade deal vote this year doubtful
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Thursday it was doubtful that the House this year will take up pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
Pharmac reforms expected
The medicines industry says reforms are likely be needed to the way the Government's drug-buying agency Pharmac operates if New Zealand is to reach a free trade deal with the United States.